When God Will Not Answer

" I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: " Proverbs 1:26-28

If we do not accept His reproof and repent of our evil ways, His judgment will befall us. The Holy Spirit says, "I also will laugh at your calamity". Today we find that many people of God face calamities in their lives. We do receive many prayer requests asking us to pray for deliverance from diverse diseases or from the hands of evil spirits. Though we pray for their deliverance in the Name of Jesus Christ, many of these afflicted people do not get deliverance because they have turned their hearts away from His reproof. When they were reproved by true God's servants, they did not accept the same. The Holy Spirit says, "I will mock when your fear cometh." When their fear comes, the Lord mocks them. Proverbs 9:8 says, "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." When we rebuke a wise man, he will love us. Open rebuke is better than secret love (Prov.27:5 ).

There are many servants of God who are being used by God mightily through signs and wonders. If a believer, after hearing their messages, reproves one of these servants of God, will the latter accept the reproof of the former? If a pastor is reproved by a believer, will the former accept the reproof of the latter? This is the million dollar question.

You will become wiser if somebody reproves you for your mistake. At times, our fear comes as desolation and our destruction comes as a whirlwind; and distress and anguish comes upon us, despite our prayers coupled with fasting, or despite the prayers of intercession by others. The Holy Spirit says, "Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer." If any of our prayers still remains unanswered by God, we should examine our life very carefully to see whether we had rejected at any point of time any word of reproof from others. The last part of this verse makes me tremble. The Holy Spirit says, "They shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me." (Prov. 1:28) What a pity! The Bible says that if you seek, you shall find, and if you knock, it shall be opened (Matt.7:7).

But here, it says that even if we seek Him early, we will not find Him. Let us note that the Proverbs are equally applicable to the people of God under the New Covenant. Let us not say that since we are under the dispensation of grace, God always hears our prayers in the Name of Jesus Christ. For everything, there is a time. The Spirit of God will not strive with us for long. The Holy Spirit who knocks at the door of your heart for a very long time will depart from the door of your heart one day (Song of Solomon 3:1-2 and 5:6 & Rev. 3:20). Because you have rejected His reproof and His counsels, which were for your good. "I sought Him but I could not find Him: I called Him, but He gave me no answer." (Song of Solomon 5:6)

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